1 new confirmed COVID-19 case in Thurston County Saturday raises total to 9

One new confirmed positive case of COVID-19, the illness caused by a novel coronavirus, was confirmed in Thurston County Saturday. That brings the county’s total number of confirmed cases to nine.

The latest patient is a man in his 40s.

The county is declining to release any additional information about local COVID-19 patients, such as underlying conditions or location, due to privacy concerns.

According to Thurston County Public Health and Social Services, these are the cases confirmed here so far:

• Confirmed March 11: A man in his 50s;
• Confirmed March 13: A man in his 40s and a woman in her 50s;
• Confirmed March 15: A man in his 60s;
• Confirmed March 16: A woman in her 40s;
• Confirmed March 18: A man in his 30s; and
• Confirmed March 20: A woman in her 60s and a woman in her 50s.
• Confirmed March 21: A man in his 40s.

Thurston County so far has not seen a death from COVID-19. Eight counties in Washington have.

The most recent state data, released Saturday afternoon, showed 1,793 confirmed positive cases and 94 deaths.

The majority of those confirmed cases so far are in King (934 cases, with 74 fatalities as of Saturday), Snohomish (447 cases, with 10 fatalities), and Pierce (95 cases, with one fatality).

Nationwide, there were 24,146 confirmed cases as of Saturday afternoon. Globally, there were more than 303,000 confirmed cases. Only China, Italy, and Spain have more cases than the United States; the US surpassed Germany and Iran overnight Friday.